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  • noun Plural form of sunstroke.

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Examples

  • His supple brown skin hadn't yet lost their baby ripples, streaks of orange and red sunstrokes.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • His supple brown skin hadn't yet lost their baby ripples, streaks of orange and red sunstrokes.

    Core on a Cord Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • We face the kind of temperatures everyday at which California reports a 100 deaths due to sunstrokes.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • We face the kind of temperatures everyday at which California reports a 100 deaths due to sunstrokes.

    Beat the heat-Monthly mingle 2006

  • A high degree of moisture in the air favors sunstrokes, but it is a curious fact that sunstroke is much more frequent in certain localities, and in special years than at other places and times with identical climatic conditions.

    The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

  • This heated blood striking the vital organs accounts for the fact that on those excessively hot days, when there are many sunstrokes, most of them are among men who not only habitually take alcohol, but who are under the influence of alcohol at the time.

    The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Winfield Scott Hall

  • It's an island that ordinarily belongs somewhere in the tropic zone -- real sultry weather, sunstrokes and all that.

    The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

  • After Paddy Muskrat and his wife talked to her about sunstrokes, the

    The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • And Buster's house was so warm that three of his guests almost had sunstrokes -- and had to be helped home.

    The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • I do not have -- ah -- sunstrokes and colds and headaches here is that you take pains to see that I am protected against their causes.

    Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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